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Couple says fugitive tied them up, stole car

Couple says fugitive tied them up, stole car

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Jim Reynolds, 66, right, and wife, Karen Reynolds 57, recount their experience during a news conference today in Big Bear Lake, Calif., of being held captive by fugitive Christopher Dorner inside a condo unit they own at Mountain Vista Resort.

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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. — Fugitive ex-policeman Christopher Dorner was hiding at least five days in a mountain condominium before surprising the owners, tying them up and stealing their car just hours before his death in a fiery confrontation with police, the couple said.

Karen and Jim Reynolds said Dorner was upstairs in their rental condo in the San Bernardino Mountains around noon Tuesday when they arrived to clean it to rent to vacationers.

The building is across the street from a command post established by authorities as they scoured the mountain for Dorner.